For this sake  I want to fly ballistically to the psychedelic  El­li, E­li, My God, my God  To Benjamin my son  For this sake I have to stop crying  Before bed time I have to look at his portrait and mutter  His name sweetly, pray  That he will make time  I have to be ready for the future: unanswered questions  Superficial speculation and generalization  On what is going on in our minds  When life and death is delivered to us  As a result of the chain of events  Casual. Small steps on the steppe of  Being. Uncontainable. Flashes in  Insights. Parables  Delusions.  I want to stretch the wings of my unhappy spirit  Gather his spirit and  So, hand in hand we fly father and son without losing height  Without falling into the cold water outside the law of action and reaction  Two acrobats aesthetically united two prodigal souls wandering the heavens

for violin and piano
performed by Ilana Zaks, violin and Anthony Ratinov, piano

This is a piece about change, gradual and sudden, noticed and unnoticed.

March 2021, recorded in Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music

The End of Seasons

For Percussion, Cello, Harp and Electronics
Premiered June 16 2021 for Walden School CMR

Performers: 
Nuiko Wadden - Harp
Jake Ellzey - Percussion
Matthew Gold - Percussion
James Alexander - Cello

(not) a shadow of (2021)

To crave and to have (for string orchestra)

Performed by the fellows of the Next Festival of Emerging Artists and conductor Peter Askim. Recorded June 2022 at Skyline Studios in New York City.

To crave and to have (for string orchestra)

The aria 'Is There Someone Else' from the chamber opera 'Manhattan in Charcoal ' by Gene Pritsker poem/libretto by Jacob Miller 

'Is There Someone Else' from the chamber opera Manhattan in Charcoal

From Despair To There

Psycadelic Journey

'Fear & Nasty' from 'Trump - a Di.J. Concerto' by Gene Pritsker
performed  at the 2017 Impuls Festival in Halle, Germany 
at Steintor-Varieté hall. 
Gene Pritsker -  Di.J. with the MDR Symphony,  Ulrich Kern - conductor.

'Fear & Nasty' from 'Trump - a Di.J. Concerto

Thomas Faulkner, percussion
Lila Meretzky, voice
Recorded by Continuous Motion Productions
May 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee

Don't look for me where birds sing

Through

Memo

Every sound produced by an initial attack goes through a stage of decay, and then perhaps lingering a little at a sustaining level, before it is released into silence. There’s something really poetic about what every sound has to go through. The attack is often what gets more attention, but somehow I am alway more drawn to beauty in the decaying of sound. Perhaps, because I am essentially a decaying body, there is something I can relate to. Perhaps dusk is beautiful in a similar way. 


performed by Kenji Bunch

written in May-June 2020.

Psycadelic Journey

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